World War I
In September 1916, following an attack on St Albans, the German Airship SL 11 became the first airship to be brought down over England.
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“War is in truth a disease in which the juices that serve health and maintenance are used for the sole purpose of nourishing something foreign, something at odds with nature.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
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